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Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

05 May at 17:17 PM, via The Guardian

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry

When Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. “She” wrote poems for him in the manner of Keats and Betjeman and laughed at his “delightful”...

Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds

05 May at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later

A single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can induce anatomical changes in the brain, according to research among people who took the psychedelic compound for the first time.

Scientists spotted apparent changes in the brain’s structure which were still...

World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines

05 May at 15:34 PM, via The Guardian

Finalisation of pact governing global response to disease outbreaks delayed as talks on how to share benefits stall

A key deadline to finalise a global pandemic treaty has been missed by negotiators, prompting warnings that the world remains unprepared for the next major disease outbreak.

Countries have been trying to agree how they should share information on pathogens, such as bacteria or...

From app idea to board game hit

05 May at 14:08 PM, via TechCentral

From pizza-box prototypes to Exclusive Books shelves, this South African financial literacy board game has found an audience.

Slow Alzheimer’s diagnoses ‘mean UK patients missing out on experimental treatments’

05 May at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Alzheimer’s Research UK says patients at risk of being left behind as lack of formal or accurate diagnoses closes door to trials

People with Alzheimer’s disease are missing out on experimental treatments because they are not diagnosed early or accurately enough to be enrolled in clinical trials, a UK charity has said.

Trials of Alzheimer’s drugs reached a record high this year, according to...

A game-changer for good health? Scientists believe ‘we are when we eat’ | Devi Sridhar

05 May at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Decades of advice on what to eat and what not to might have been missing one key ingredient, according to new research

Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For years, even decades, this has been the advice for those wanting a healthy body weight, lower blood pressure and better markers of metabolic health. Most weight-loss advice has focused on either...

‘Historic breakthrough’: could the fossil fuel era be coming to an end? – podcast

05 May at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

The transition towards renewable energy received a boost last week when representatives from 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia, for a world-first climate meeting aimed at bringing the fossil fuels era to an end. Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s global environment editor, Jon Watts, about how the landmark conference came about, who was missing, and whether the optimism can...

Man produces sperm from testicular tissue frozen as a child in breakthrough trial

04 May at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one day

In a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm.

It is the first time a transplant of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue...

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